Algae of Australia

Documents the green algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef. This volume includes seven orders, 18 families, 41 genera and 135 species and infraspecific taxa of benthic green algae. It also includes an introduction to the islands, identification keys to genera and species, and a description and discussion of each taxon.

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Lord Howe Island is fringed by the world's southernmost consolidated coral reef. The Capricorn Group is a series of patch reefs and low coral cays. For more than 30 years Dr Kraft has studied the species-rich marine algal communities of these reefs, paying special attention to subtidal habitats. This authoritative account, documenting the green algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, will, in due course, be followed by treatments of the brown and red algae.